WEEK-END PARTIES AT THE FRONT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 165, 17 March 1915, Page 3

WEEK-END PARTIES AT THE FRONT.

Under date J.anujirj J 9... the. following eablo dispatch was punished in j the "Toronto Oio.be'':. -Mrs : As-qukh,.j ; svife of "the Premier, with tlm.e other:women, left I.(noon a \vc. k age to; spend the we-sk-end' at a villa in the ; rear of the British lines, as guests of an of.hcer to. the Guards. His wife was Clio of tho:-c with" Mrs Asquith-j' Mrs. Asquith and her friends left Cal-! ais in two motor cars. M a farm'some six miles from The yjlsii >.o which; they! '.sen going they vei;> i.e;d u; by a! French cavalry troop, which declined 1 •o icf th.c-in liii.'ioi* proceed or return. Mrs Asquiuth, who speaks French fluently, was ii.'iuuod \e,ry poi ely-by. the young ii. (V.ivj,o •. i the car-' airy trcop that lie had strict orders to stop all civilians ac that pcint, and tc keep them there until a large number of baggage, ammunition, and food,] \vai!4'on.-5. which were (•/• ming from ■:Ue rear '.o La Bnssse io that road, i tuiSi-cd by. All civilians, rliu officer .•j'vf'i, >\o..:d then have to leturn at one? to the rear.. It was in vain that ' Mrs Asquith shewed permits and, passes. The French officer declared ■.Vita mr.nyj rei.U'Ots that l.'Jls -■ -arCbis | were positive, and that he mast, carry: them out. It. is surmised that these ; week-end parties at the front are not approved of at French headquarters, 1 and that General Joffr,3 gave ihstruc- j tioiiS last week that visitcrs.be stop- 1 ped, in order, to give them a lesson i that would discourage tljfis £t*rfc. of f : visit to the front in future. ■■'.'■: 1